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Bouyon soca, sometimes referred to as "jump up soca", is a fusion genre that typically blends old bouyon rhythms from the '90s and soca music. Bouyon soca is a term coined by non-Dominican producers and musicians, mainly from St Lucia, who embrace both Soca from Trinidad and Bouyon music from Dominica and so find it natural to produce blends of ...
Since 2012, Walshy Fire has presided as master of ceremonies for Major Lazer. In 2013, he described his role as follows: Basically, Diplo is the selector and I'm the MC. He's the one that picks the records and mixes the records and I'm the one that's out front and presents the records to people, makes speeches that makes the records make sense, and pulls up the records.
Travis Hosein, known professionally as Travis World, is a Trinidadian DJ and dance music producer, who works in soca and related genres of music from the Caribbean. He has produced tracks featuring many prominent Caribbean artists, including Superblue, Machel Montano, Lyrikal, Nessa Preppy, Konshens and Skinny Fabulous.
“Soca is life to me,” said Ashley Andrews, a Miamian of Trinidadian descent who has been playing mas at the Miami Carnival for six years and also serves as the social media manager for Miami ...
Machel's first shot to fame as a nine-year-old boy came with the song "Too Young To Soca" while he was still in primary school. In 1984, along with his older brother Marcus and neighbours, the group Panasonic Express was started and, in 1989, the band became Xtatik .
Mark Antonio Jiminez, better known by his stage name Ataklan is a Trinidadian singer-songwriter and performer primarily of the modern rapso tradition. Ataklan has been referred to as "Trinidad's answer to Beck" and a "fiercely independent songwriter and singer and arguably the most original artist to have emerged on the island since David Rudder". [1]
Nadia Batson is a Trinidadian singer, songwriter, producer [1] and model. She was a runner-up in the Power Category at the 2007 International Soca Monarch with her song "My Land" with Kees Dieffenthaller.
At 11 years old, her parents divorced and she moved to Barbados with her mother. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] She competed in the Richard Stoute Teen Talent contest in 1985, finishing third place. [ 5 ] She was a lead vocalist in the popular band Square One , joining the group in 1987, and recording several albums before leaving the band in 2004 to take care of ...